Mar 15, 2007 - 09:37 am .- The
Catholic Bishops of Portugal have strongly condemned a new law passed
by the Portuguese Parliament that would legalize abortions up to the
10th week of pregnancy, LifeNews.com reports. The Bishops said they
would not participate in such an “unfair” law.

Mar 15, 2007 - 09:34 am .- The
president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued a statement
welcoming Pope Benedict XVI’s apostolic exhortation on the Eucharist,
saying it clearly reflects the mind of the bishops who attended the
2005 world synod on the Eucharist. The document was released by the
Vatican on March 13.
“Pope Benedict
teaches that the Eucharist finds its source within the wellspring of
love that is the Trinity,” said Bishop William Skylstad, referring to
the document, titled Sacramentum Caritatis (The Sacrament of Love).

Mar 15, 2007 - 09:13 am .- The
Catholic Church must be present to young people and share the faith
with people of other cultures and religions. These were some of the
ideas shared at a national conference, held March 7-9 in Bangalore, in
preparation for the 2008 Indian Mission Congress.

Mar 15, 2007 - 09:11 am .- Catholic
groups are urging the Connecticut legislature not to pass a bill that
would force the state’s four Catholic hospitals to provide the
emergency contraception pill to all rape victims, independent of
whether ovulation has begun.

Mar 15, 2007 - 08:34 am .- Archbishop
Domingo Castagna of Corrientes warned this week of the constant danger
of losing the sense of good and evil under the guise of modernizing
traditional concepts, the genuineness of which should not be forgotten.

Mar 15, 2007 - 08:30 am .- In
the wake of the recent announcement of the April 2nd presentation of
the diocesan phase of John Paul II’s cause for beatification, the late
Pope’s former secretary, Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, revealed
that in his judgment, the secret of the widespread devotion to him is
the love he showed for man and for the infinite, as well as his love
for the people.